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"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."
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Personal Development
"Ambition is greed without makeup."
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"Don't just raise the bar. Raise the roof."
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"Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom."
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"It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded."
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"All you need is a dream to drive you nuts."
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"Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object " we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering."
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"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
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"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."
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"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Life
"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."
Responsibility
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
Adaptation
"Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones."
Recognition
"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."
Knowledge
"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
Strength
"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still."
Time
"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."
Courage
"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."
Fool
"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."
Contentment
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